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Historical Event on 8/18/1995

Parvati Giri, also called the Little Mother Teresa, died in Orissa. She was 69. She was a social worker and had taken part during the Quit India movement.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/23/1977Harvinder Singh, great Indian ODI pace-bowler (1997), was born.
7/7/1997Armed Kuki militants shot dead 25 persons and injured five seriously in an attack on Paites village in Manipur.
11/22/1999V. S. Rama Devi and Vishnu Kant Shastri appointed the new Governors of Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh.
5/1/1897Vivekananda Swami established Ramakrishna Mission.
3/1/2000P.Harikrishna becomes India's youngest International Master in the Sangli International chess tournament.
6/21/1930Five hundred were hurt as police charged Bombay mob.
3/24/1987First developmental launch of new generation rocket ASLV 'Stretched Rohini Satellite Series' (SROSS-1). This carried payload for launch vehicle performance monitoring and for gamma ray astronomy. This plunged within two minutes and 40 seconds of its launching.
8/19/1993Y. D. Lokurkar, senior journalist, died.
9/18/1909Kilachand Ramdas, famous merchant, was born.
4/22/1998India and Bangladesh resolve to work together to ''root out terrorism'', push bilateral trade and harness river waters of the region.